ACo
Well-Known Member
Hey All,
Its been a while since I posted, but I've come across an issue im not so sure about.
I brewed a breakfast stout back in June which turned out fine in the primary. After about 2 weeks I racked it to the secondary and added oak chips that had been soaked in bourbon for a few weeks. Sounds delicious right?
Anyways, I am fairly certain that the secondary became contaminated with some kind of wild yeast or lacto now that I think about it (I used safale-05, and it did not look like that at all). It chugged along for about 2 months before the yeast/lacto stopped (I wasn't about to throw away the beer!)
After the fermentation stopped I checked the gravity and it came out to about 7% which is about 1% higher than I expected. And the beer actually tastes great!
I bottled the beer 3 weeks ago, but now I just checked it and I'm seeing yeast floaties in the bottles and along the sides of the glass. Which in all my years I have never seen.
I'm wondering if this has happened to anybody else. Will the yeast fall out of suspension eventually?
Thanks guys, I would appreciate any insight.
Its been a while since I posted, but I've come across an issue im not so sure about.
I brewed a breakfast stout back in June which turned out fine in the primary. After about 2 weeks I racked it to the secondary and added oak chips that had been soaked in bourbon for a few weeks. Sounds delicious right?
Anyways, I am fairly certain that the secondary became contaminated with some kind of wild yeast or lacto now that I think about it (I used safale-05, and it did not look like that at all). It chugged along for about 2 months before the yeast/lacto stopped (I wasn't about to throw away the beer!)
After the fermentation stopped I checked the gravity and it came out to about 7% which is about 1% higher than I expected. And the beer actually tastes great!
I bottled the beer 3 weeks ago, but now I just checked it and I'm seeing yeast floaties in the bottles and along the sides of the glass. Which in all my years I have never seen.
I'm wondering if this has happened to anybody else. Will the yeast fall out of suspension eventually?
Thanks guys, I would appreciate any insight.